A professor of psychological science at Aarhus University (Denmark's second-largest city and home to one of Scandinavia's leading research institutions) has examined how parenting in Denmark compares with the UK, finding meaningful differences in parental leave, childcare subsidies and cultural practices — but fewer differences in actual caregiving equality than policy alone might suggest. Danish fathers receive 11 weeks of non-transferable paternity leave paid at roughly 50% of average earnings, compared with just two weeks at around 19% of earnings in the UK, and the Danish state subsidises at least 75% of early childcare costs, helping explain why maternal employment rates are markedly higher there. However, research shows that even in Denmark, mothers still handle the majority of night-time care and are widely perceived — by both parents — as more competent infant caregivers than fathers, while claims that Danish babies cry less than British ones rest on a small number of studies conducted more than two decades ago and should be treated with caution.